Controlled core-to-core photo-polymerisation – fabrication of an optical fibre-based pH sensor

Fuad Mohamad; Michael G. Tanner; Debaditya Choudhury; Tushar R. Choudhary; Harry A. C. Wood; Kerrianne Harrington; Mark Bradley

doi:10.1039/C7AN00454K

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Controlled core-to-core photo-polymerisation – fabrication of an optical fibre-based pH sensor†‡

Fuad Mohamad,

^ab Michael G. Tanner,

^bc Debaditya Choudhury,^bc Tushar R. Choudhary,^bd Harry A. C. Wood,^e Kerrianne Harrington^e and Mark Bradley*^ab

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^a School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Joseph Black Building, Edinburgh, UK
E-mail: mark.bradley@ed.ac.uk

^b EPSRC IRC Hub, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK

^c Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

^d Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

^e Department of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK

Abstract

The fabrication of fluorescence-based pH sensors, embedded into etched pits of an optical fibre via highly controllable and spatially selective photo-polymerisation is described and the sensors validated.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7AN00454K
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 15 mar 2017
Accepted: 09 aug 2017
First published: 30 aug 2017
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Analyst, 2017,142, 3569-3572

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F. Mohamad, M. G. Tanner, D. Choudhury, T. R. Choudhary, H. A. C. Wood, K. Harrington and M. Bradley, Analyst, 2017, 142, 3569 DOI: 10.1039/C7AN00454K

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